Lymph nodes

[elfinbaby]

I've got one foot on the raw wagon and one foot off - I'm doing my best. I'm drinking 3 quarts of green smoothies a day in an effort to leave as little room as possible for my cooked addictions. This week I felt my body trying to toss out as much gunk as possible in every way. My lymph nodes became swollen. That's never happened before. I wasn't sick - no sinus issues, etc. I've felt this problem more subtley in the past when I'm raw and have dairy but this week it was every day for 7 days. They were swollen! Hard to swallow, painful, sensitive to the touch.

All this is no big surprise - that's not why I'm posting. I'd like to know if there are particular raw foods or cleanses that I might benefit from. In my totally cooked days, my lymph glands became swollen under stress. Now, I only notice it when give in to my addictions and consume dairy.

Oddly enough, it hasn't been possible for me to drink my smoothies for the last day and a half and the swelling is gone.

The lymph system is new territory for me to learn about so I thought I'd ask around and see what ya'll know:)

April

[spiralgirl]

elfinbaby,

All I can tell you is my own experience. I used to eat all kinds of junk food: potato chips, chocolate, cinnamon rolls, nacho chips etc. My lymph nodes were sore quite a bit under my arm pits and also I would get pain just below my ear on the right and left. It would come and go. I've been raw for over 3 weeks and I have no more pain at all. It went away within the first 6 days for me. I occasionally get a slight pain for a couple seconds under my right ear but I think that is still detox happening. Other than that I'm fine. I'm now about 99% raw.

What I would suggest is go to health food store and ask if they have any natural tinctures that would help ease it. The cure for me though was raw.

[elfinbaby]

There's no doubt that the cure is raw. Raw is the cure for so many things:) I was just thinking that if my body is this sensitive that maybe my lymphatic system is blocked up and could use a cleanse. I'd like to try doing a lymphatic cleanse - but am not familiar with them - or try consuming particular raw foods that are known to help cleanse the lymph glands - but I'm not familiar with those either.

Thanks,
April